A picture of Lara Croft in new Tomb Raider hand in hand with Lara Croft from the old Tomb raider Series. The new one labeled GNOME and the old one KDE.

    • Is it? Gnome loads in a ton of services and feels pretty bloated to me. I don’t notice that it’s any lighter than KDE, and it often feels more sluggish.

      But, they’re both desktops and are loading in a bunch of stuff whether you use it or not, so you’re right that they’re pretty comparable.

      • s4if
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        91 year ago

        Gnome is bloated. It needs seconds just to oprn start menu/app switcher/or something like that on my low end laptop… :/
        It also uses more ram at iddle.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Bro offered a truce, why not take it?

        Plasma and GNOME both have legitimate uses, no one is objectively better than the other.

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      31 year ago

      Plasma itself isn’t bloated, it is only bloated if you install the entire suite of KDE applications. Installing plasma by itself doesn’t require that many dependencies.

      GNOME has a similar level of optionals for their desktop environment as well, you’re just expected to actually INSTALL them.

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      KDE uses less RAM, you can fact check quite easily.

      Depending on the distro it ships with more or less stuff, but a few games, an office suite, media players for audio/video and in some cases a partition manager, are all necessary tools in any setup, at least in my book.

      I don’t see the bloat.